Krystyna

My son,Blaze, and his fiance, Melissa (aka Jaunty Melissa) are getting married on April 20th! One of the hardest things about life after the flood is not having my son around. I miss his ridiculous sense of humor so much!

Last Sunday was the Bridal Shower. You know I love to have fun so I prepared a little joke gift. Since Melissa lost most of her quilting stuff in the flood, I made her a little pincushion. I enclosed a note saying that I hoped she would get back to sewing after the
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Last night and today I pulled out a box of cards from my wonderful friends on the Quilting Board to sit down and write thank you notes. It is going to take me a few days to get them all done. It is a task that brings tears of gratitude for knowing so many wonderful people here.

As I wrote to several ladies, Sandy left some ugly scars in our community and others along the shore. In time I know the memories of the horror and chaos will fade and the nightmares will stop. But the memories
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While Hurricane Sandy is just a vague memory for almost everyone, those of us who lived by the sea are still in the middle of it five weeks later. We had a local contractor do a rip out for us -- they take out the floors and walls and dry everything out so that your home can be repaired. Unfortunately Sandy hit our little cottage with such force that it knocked it off the foundation and cracked several support beams in the ceiling. Our house is going to be torn down. It is just a matter of working
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You'll have to forgive me if I sound confused. I am not thinking clearly. Justlooking at everything is more than the mind can take in. We walked up to theboardwalk two days ago. There are two main road here, Park Avenue and Broadway.Broadway looked like something from an armageddon movie. Mountains of sand, roadcaved in and ponds of water, weird foamy crap blowing. Most of the board walk isgone as is the sand and the ocean is ... well, the fancy pants condo owners
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Right now my phone is charging but most of the cell towers were knocked out soreception is very sketchy. Can't really make a call. They take forever to chargetoo, so only texts. Sometimes have to stand on top of acar and turn around to find a signal. So that's why everything is sketchy.

There is no Red Cross, no FEMA. Nothing. There is a curfew from 6am to 7pmbecause we heard there was looting. At city hall they
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I got up bright and early this morning at 5:00 am and with coffee in hand started to read the digest for today. It's a little frustrating that the "new board" digest seems to have lots of repeats and not as many threads as the old one, so I started looking at the pictures section.

I came across a wonderful threadstarted by Grammy Dwynn which I enjoyed enormously when she first posted it in July - the Scrappy Quilt Show. Since she started it, this marvelous thread has grown.
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A few days ago I stopped into one of our Walmarts to look for a particular notion and while I was there anyway ... I just HAD to take a look through the fabric!

Let me back up a bit. My FIRM rule for shopping for fabric at Walmart is to never, not ever, pay more than $3.99 a yard, and if it's cheaper, all the better. That said, I've really increased my stash exponentially at this store. Much of that is thanks to my husband who loves to dig through the bolts and more often than not
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